Harvey’s representative complained about Warhol’s use of his client’s design, yet he despondently admitted, “What’s one man’s box, may be another man’s art” (Gaddy 2007). While neuroaesthetics does not aim to analyze such a situation, it should at least have the means of taking it into account.
The Brillo Box photographed by Pedro Ribeiro Simões at the Berardo Collection in the Cultural Center...
Brillo Box in the MoMA exhibition "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen". Photograph by Jona...
There's a 2017 HBO documentary called "Brillo Box (3¢ Off)". It's about a yellow Brillo Box bought in 1969 by Lisanne Skyler's parents and sold 40 years later for more than $3 million. Watch the trailer below:
Artistic appreciation has been a matter of inquiry for aestheticians and philosophers for a long time, and Vidal and Ortega's work shows us that it continues to be so in the recent work of neuroaestheticians. In case the Brillo Box made you wonder about the limits of art, we suggest you delve into this question through the links below:
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, often considered the leading figure of the pop art m...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.